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Blueing   /blˈuɪŋ/   Listen
Blueing

noun
1.
Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge.  Synonyms: blue, bluing.
2.
A process that makes something blue (or bluish).  Synonym: bluing.






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"Blueing" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1820, and some by selling Jamaica rum and niggers way back before the Revolutionary War—they've been respectable so long that they know mighty well and good that nobody except a Britisher is going to question their blue blood—and oh my, what good blueing third-generation money does make. But out here in God's Country, the marquises of milling and the barons of beef are still uneasy. Even their pretty women, after going to the best hair-dressers and patronizing the best charities, sometimes get scared lest somebody think ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis

... tormented by this importunate creature; she borrowed of me tea, sugar, candles, starch, blueing, irons, pots, bowls—in short, every article in common domestic use—while it was with the utmost difficulty we could get them returned. Articles of food, such as tea and sugar, or of convenience, like candles, ...
— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie



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